Predicting Outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

To the Editor: Celli and colleagues (March 4 issue) 1 propose the use of a new index (the BODE index) that has excellent predictive power with regard to outcome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The BODE index combines four variables: the body-mass index (B); the degree of airflow obs...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2004-05, Vol.350 (22), p.2308-2310
Hauptverfasser:	Sankaranarayanan, V, Ziedalski, T, Gould, M K
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Airway Obstruction Body Mass Index Dyspnea Exercise Tolerance Forced Expiratory Volume Humans Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - classification Respiratory Muscles - physiopathology Ribs - physiopathology Severity of Illness Index
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